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514 FLIGHT, 8 April I960 AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD Transposes Aereos Militares—TAM operatessome domestic services in Peru. Services are carried out by the Peruvian Air Force.Head Office: Lima, Peru. Executives: Col C. Ramos, director; Capt H.Diaz, technical manager. Fleet: eight DC-3, six D.H.89, three Stinson, one Beechcrart, four Canso, four Beaver. Transportes Aereos Nacionales SA—TANAirlines was founded by Honduras private interests in 1947 for the operation of contractcargo flights. The company built up substan- tial cargo traffic and in 1950 scheduled pas-senger and freight operations were begun. There is now a small US private holding in thecompany. TAN's routes now serve Miami, Cuba, El Salvador, Guatemala, British Hon-duras, in addition to Honduras. Unduplicated route mileage is 1,180. An agreement withAerolineas Peruanas allows through services to be operated between the US and Buenos Airesat sub-IATA fares. Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Executives: M. Brooks, president; R. Alvarez, secretary; C. W. Shelton, vice-president.Fleet: three C-46. Transportes Aereos Orientates—TAO operatesnon-scheduled services within Ecuador. Head Office: Quito, Ecuador.Fleet: one Ju52, one Norseman. Transportes Aereos Peruanos SA operates domestic services within Peru with Curtiss C-46s.Head Office: Paleo Colon 266, Lima, Peru. Fleet: Curtiss C-46. Transportes Aereos Portugueses SARL—TAPwas organized in 1944 as a division of the Civil Aviation Department. Its first route,between Lisbon and Madrid, was opened in September 1946. Services to Angola andMozambique were opened in the following year. A large part of the stock of TAP is nowprivately owned. The company operates ser- vices between Lisbon and Oporto and inter-national services to Tangier, Casablanca, Paris, Brussels, Madrid, London, Kano,Leopoldville, Luanda and Lourenco Marques. Last June TAP began using BEA Viscountson the London - Lisbon route instead of Super Constellations. Head Office: 2 Rua Braamcamp, Lisbon,Portugal. Executives: M. Barbosa, executive generalsecretary; R. de Avelar, commercial manager; J. C. Ferreira, inspector.Employees: 1,060. Fleet: three L.1049G, three DC-4. Transportes Aereos Salvador Ltda—TASstarted as a charter operator in 1949 and began scheduled operations within the State of Bahiain 1953. TAS has since been absorbed into REAL but continues to operate under its ownname with DC-3s. Head Office: 8, Avenida Iona Angelica, Sal-vador, Bahia, Brazil. Transportes Aeriens du Gabon (Air Gabon)began regular operations in 1951 and now links a score of places in French Equatorial Africa with Libreville.Head Office: Libreville, Gabon. Fleet: two Rapide, two Cessna 170B, two Autocrat. Transporturi Aeriene Romine—see TAROM. Trek Airways was formed in 1953 and operatesnon-scheduled, low-fare services between Europe and South Africa. Over 6,000 passen-gers were carried on this route last year. This year's programme is based on five round flightsper month. Head Office: Yorkshire House, cor. Rissik andMarshall Streets, Johannesburg, South Africa. Executives: W. B. Rorke, financial director;Capt T. Meredith, operations director; General F. W. von Meljenthin, commercial director;Capt C. H. Snelgar, technical director. Employees: 145.Fleet: two DC-4, one Viking. Tunis Air, Societe Tunisienne de l'Air, wasfounded in 1948 by the Tunisian Government, Air France and other interests. It operates in-ternal services and routes to Algeria, Libya, Corsica, France and Italy.Head Office: 47 rue de Portugal, Tunis, Tunisia. Executives: P. F. Delaunay, general manager;M. Tonnelle, commercial manager; M. Gauthier, technical manager.Employees: 180. Fleet: two DC-4, three DC-3.Turk Hava Yollari—THY, formerly known as Delvet Hava Yollari (Turkish State Air Lines),was set up by the Government in 1933 as part of the Ministry of Defence. Control passed tothe Ministry of Communications in 1938 until 1956 when it became a corporation bearing itspresent title Turk Hava Yollari Anonim Ortakligi (Turkish Airlines Inc). The airlinenow operates an internal network of passenger services and a freight service between Istanbuland Ankara. International routes are to Nico- sia, Beirut, Athens and Rome.Head Office: Istanbul, Turkey. Executives: Ulvi Yenal, general manager;Hiiseyin Unsal, assistant general manager; Cevdet Akbas, secretary general; HiiseyinYegin, technical manager; Necmi Aran, com- mercial manager; Turgut Sayar, accountingmanager; Suphi Ozoran, supply manager; Selcuk Irdem, personnel manager.Employees: 1,420. Fleet: 21 DC-3, seven Heron, four ViscountOn order: five Fairchild F-27, five Fokker F-27. Twentieth Century Airlines is the operating name of Twentieth Century Aircraft Inc, a US non-scheduled carrier. Fleet: three DC-6B, nine DC-4. UAT—see Union Aeromaritime de Transport. UMCA—see Uraba, Medellin and Central Airways Inc. Ukamps, the North Korean airline, is suc-cessor to Sokao, the Soviet-North Korean air line, which was founded in 1950 to connectNorth Korea with Aeroflot's services to and from Moscow. Services were suspended whenNorth Korea invaded South Korea and opera- tions were resumed in 1953. Ukamps, described as Ministry of Transportof Korean Democratic People's Republic, now operates between Pyong-Yang, Mukden andPeking. Head Office: Pyong-Yang, Korean DemocraticRepublic. Fleet: Li-2, 11-14. Union Aeromaritime de Transport—UAT orAeromaritime—was founded in 1949 and is connected with Cie Maritime des ChargeursReunis, Services were opened to French Equatorial Africa and to Saigon, although theFar East route is no longer operated. Comets were introduced in 1953, but subsequentlywithdrawn. UAT has recently been studying the Comet 4C for its African routes. SinceJanuary 1, 1955, UAT has had the rights for the operation of all French services toRhodesia, Mozambique and the Union of South Africa, and the company is operating TWA's Boeing Intercontinentals are now operating non-stop transatlantic services between Paris and Johannesburg. In Septem-ber 1955 Societe Aigle Azur merged with UAT; the latter has a 46 per cent share ofthe traffic over the coastal routes from France and North Africa to Senegal, French Guineaand the Ivory Coast. In Afrique Noire there is equal distribution of traffic between UATand Air France. A UAT subsidiary, Aero- maritime, operates a network of feeder servicesin West Africa. UAT accounts for 0.8 per cent of France's34 per cent share in Air Union. UAT also operates Paris - Nice and Paris - Marseillesservices. Head Office: Le Bourget, nr. Paris, France.Executives: L. Pommery, president; J. Com- bard and R. Loubry, directors.Employees: 2,620. Fleet: three DC-6A, seven DC-6B, three DC-4,six Noratlas, seven Heron 1. On order: two DC-8 (mid-1960). Union of Burma Airways—UBA was organ-ized in 1948 with the Burmese Government subscribing 90 per cent of the capital. UBAoperates domestic services to all the principal towns in Burma, and international routes toCalcutta, Chittagong and Bangkok. UBA is contemplating the purchase of Fokker Friend-ships. Head Office: Rangoon, Burma.Executives: Tharay Sithu Thura T. Clift, chairman; Sq Ldr Zaya Kyam-Htin Mg MgNvunt, general manager; U Pe Tint, commer- cial manager; U Hein Tin, administrativeofficer. Employees: 866. Fleet: three Viscount 761, eight DC-3, threeD.H. Dove. United Air Lines Inc—UAL was organized onJuly 1, 1931 as a management company for Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport,National Air Transport and Varney Air Lines. These companies enable United to claim con-tinuous operation back to 1920 when Varney began service. In 1933 United pioneered theuse of the low-wing twin-engined metal mono- plane when it introduced Boeing 247s on itscoast to coast route, cutting the journey time to 19+ hours. UAL became an operating com-pany in its own right on May 1, 1934 follow- ing the Post Office mail contract fiasco. In 1947 United opened a route from SanFrancisco to Honolulu and the Company's present network extends from coast to coastover a number of routes, Hawaii is served from both San Francisco and Los Angeles.United began DC-8 services on September 18 last between New York and San Francisco;and ten cities are now served by DC-8s, in- cluding Honolulu. Boeing 720 services willbegin in the late summer, UAL having been the first to order this type.Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Executives: W. A. Patterson, president; J. A.Herlihy, senior vice-president engineering and maintenance; D. F. Magarrel, senior vice-president transportation services; D. R. Petty, senior vice-president flight operations; R. E.Johnson, senior vice-president sales and advertising; Curtis Barkes, senior vice-presidentfinance and property; R. F. Ahrens, senior vice- president personnel; H. E. Nourse, senior vice-president economic controls; S. P. Martin, secretary of the corporation and assistant tothe president; A. M. de Voursney, vice-presi- dent and treasurer.Employees: 20,733. Fleet: 20 DC-8, two DC-7B, 49 DC-7 (10being converted to DC-7F freighters), 41 DC- 6B, 7 DC-6A, 38 DC-6, 40 Convair 340. Onorder: 20 DC-8 (1960-61), 18 Boeing 720 (1960-61), 20 Caravelle 6 (1961). United States Overseas Airlines Inc is one ofthe leading US supplemental carriers. Con- centrating on military charter business, includ-ing the operation of scheduled freight services for the US Navy, US Overseas began opera-tions in 1946. For two years now, US Overseas has been operating low-fare, low-frequencyservices across the USA and to Miami. Hono- lulu - San Francisco - Los Angeles, San Fran-cisco - Los Angeles - Chicago - New York and New York - Miami services are operated, theNew York - Los Angeles tourist single fare being only $88. Head Office: Cape May County Airport, Wild-wood, New Jersey, USA. ;,
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